Category: Research Highlight

Analyses of sizable ZFS and magnetic tensors of high spin metallocomplexes

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19, pp.24769-24791 (2017). DOI: 10.1039/C7CP03850J The fictitious spin-1/2 Hamiltonian approach is the putative method to analyze the fine-structure/hyperfine ESR spectra of high spin metallocomplexes having sizable zerofield splitting (ZFS), thus giving salient principal g-values far from around g = 2 without explicitly providing their ZFS parameters in most cases. Indeed, the significant departure of the g-values from g = 2 is indicative of the occurrence of their high spin states, but naturally they never agree with true g-values acquired by quantum chemical calculations such as sophisticated DFT or ab initio MO calculations. In this work, we propose facile approaches to determine the magnetic tensors of high spin metallocomplexes having sizable ZFS, instead of performing advanced high-field/high-frequency […]

Quantum Chemistry on Quantum Computers: A Polynomial-Time Quantum Algorithm for Constructing the Wave Functions of Open-Shell Molecules

J. Phys. Chem. A 120, pp.6459-6466 (2016). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b04932 Quantum computers are capable to efficiently perform full configuration interaction (FCI) calculations of atoms and molecules by using the quantum phase estimation (QPE) algorithm. Because the success probability of the QPE depends on the overlap between approximate and exact wave functions, efficient methods to prepare accurate initial guess wave functions enough to have sufficiently large overlap with the exact ones are highly desired. Here, we propose a quantum algorithm to construct the wave function consisting of one configuration state function, which is suitable for the initial guess wave function in QPE-based FCI calculations of openshell molecules, based on the addition theorem of […]

Adiabatic Quantum Computing with Spin Qubits Hosted by Molecules

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., accepted. DOI:10.1039/C4CP04744C  A molecular spin quantum computer (MSQC) requires electron spin qubits which pulse-based electron spin/magnetic resonance (ESR/MR) techniques can afford to manipulate for implementing quantum gate operations in open shell molecular entities. Importantly, nuclear spins which are topologically connected, particularly in organic molecular spin systems are client qubits, while electron spins play a role of bus qubits. Here, we introduce the implementation for an adiabatic quantum algorithm, suggesting the possible utilization of molecular spins with optimized spin structures for MSQCs. We exemplify the utilization of an adiabatic factorization problem of 21, comparing with the corresponding nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) case. Two molecular spins are selected: One […]

An ab initio MO study of heavy atom eﬀects on the zero-field splitting tensors of high-spin nitrenes: how the spin–orbit contributions are affecte

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 16, pp.9171-9181 (2014). DOI:10.1039/c4cp00822g    The CASSCF and the hybrid CASSCF–MRMP2 methods are applied to the calculations of spin–spin and spin–orbit contributions to the zero-field splitting tensors (D tensors) of the halogen-substituted spin- septet 2,4,6-trinitrenopyridines, focusing on the heavy atom effects on the spin–orbit term of the D ten- sors (DSO tensors). The calculations reproduced experimentally determined |D| values within an error of 15%. Halogen substitutions at the 3,5-positions are less influential in the spin–spin dipolar (DSS) term of 2,4,6-trinitrenopyridines, although the DSO terms are strongly affected by the introduction of heavier halogens. The absolute sign of the DSO value (D = DZZ  (DXX + DYY)/2) […]

Pulsed electron spin nutation spectroscopy for weakly exchange-coupled multi-spin molecular systems with nuclear hyperfine couplings: a general approach to bi- and triradicals and determination of their spin dipolar and exchange interactions

Molecular Physics, 111, published on the web on July 4, 2013 DOI:10.1080/00268976.2013.811304   Weakly exchange-coupled biradicals have attracted much attention in terms of their dynamic nuclear polarisation application in NMR spectroscopy for biological systems or the use of synthetic electron-spin qubits in quantum information processing/quantum-computing technology. Analogues multi-partite molecular systems are important in entering a new phase of the relevant fields. Many stable organic biradicals known so far have nitrogen nuclei at their electron spin sites, where singly occupied molecular orbitals are dominating and large hyperfine couplings occur. A salient feature of such weakly exchange-coupled molecular systems in terms of electronic spin structures is underlain by small zero-field splitting (ZFS) […]

Hexamethoxyphenalenyl as a Possible Quantum Spin Simulator: An Electronically Stabilized Neutral π Radical with Novel Quantum Coherence Owing to Extremely High Nuclear Spin Degeneracy

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 52, published on the web on April 2, 2013 DOI:10.1002/anie.201301435 A phenalenyl radical with six methoxy groups, which were introduced symmetrically, has been synthesized. The extensively delocalized and highly symmetric lectronic-spin system was studied with advanced cw-/pulsed-ESR techniques, thereby giving an experimental model to explore molecular quantum spin simulators with novel quantum coherence attributable to the extremely high degeneracy of the nuclear spin states owing to the eighteen equivalent protons.

Prof. Takeji Takui Receives 2013 Bruker Prize

The Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has honored Professor Takeji Takui (Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Japan) with the 2013 Bruker Prize. Professor Takui has the honor of an invitation to give the Bruker Prize Lecture at the 46th Annual International Meeting of the ESR Spectroscopy Group of the RSC held at the University of Warwick from 7th – 11th April 2013. To a related web page

A Synthetic Two-Spin Quantum Bit: g-Engineered Exchange-Coupled Biradical Designed for Controlled-NOT Gate Operations

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51, pp.9860-9864 (2012)DOI:10.1002/anie.201204489 A quantum gate: A system of two coupled electron spins that is useful for simple quantum computing operations has been prepared by synthesis of a biradical 1 and co-crystallization with an isomorphous host molecule. The two weakly exchange-coupled quantum bits (target qubit blue and control qubit red) span four electron spin states. The electron spin transition is denoted by two black arrows.

Pulsed electron spin nutation spectroscopy of weakly exchange-coupled biradicals: a general theoretical approach and determination of the spin dipolar interaction

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14, pp.9137-9148 (2012)DOI:10.1039/c2cp40778g Weakly exchange-coupled biradicals have attracted much attention in terms of their DNP application in NMR spectroscopy for biological systems or the use of synthetic electron-spin qubits. Pulse-ESR based electron spin nutation (ESN) spectroscopy applied to biradicals is generally treated as transition moment spectroscopy from the theoretical side, illustrating that it is a powerful and facile tool to determine relatively short distances between weakly exchange-coupled electron spins. The nutation frequency as a function of the microwave irradiation strength ω1 (angular frequency) for any cases of weakly exchange-coupled systems can be classified into three categories; D12 (spin dipolar interaction)-driven, Δg-driven and ω1-driven nutation behaviour with […]